#ritual

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #inspirational #letting-go #life #motivational

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you? ↗

— Tori Amos

#humor

O comportamento ritual não só revela realidades práticas e mundanas, é também um teatro vivo da psicologia colectiva e uma das mais ricas expressões da ideologia e crenças - mentalidade - de uma sociedade. Afinal de contas, como os antropólogos notaram, a religião é mais do que um padrão de relações sociais: é uma expressão da capacidade humana para imaginar a estrutura da sociedade. O ritual religioso não é apenas construção cultural: é uma forma de cognição que constrói modelos de realidade e paradigmas de comportamento. E dentro deste processo pelo qual a realidade é definida, o ritual da morte joga um papel central. ↗

— Victor Turner

#religion #rituals #sociology #death

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#crises #economy #education #gift-economy #money

Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running, I could see myself from outside myself: a skinny girl with the flapping shorts and too- big a T-shirt, always watching the other girls at school, a girl in a pink bedroom sitting with a book propped on her knees, the words she was reading entering her mind, some sticking like gluey never to be forgotten, others disappearing instantly, I could remember everything and remember nothing. I would watch a movie and recall every scene as if I had written the script, then watch another movie another day and be unable to recall it at all. ↗

— Alice Jamieson

#amnesia #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #memory

Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#soul #spiritual-life #change

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#parenthood #spirituality #hypocrisy

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#counselor #earth #god #happiness #heaven

I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in, "There's got to be something more. Go find it. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#non-fiction-books-inspirational #spiritual-journey #spiritual-life #spirituality #inspirational

I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#inner-work #life-lessons #non-fiction-books-inspirational #spiritual-work #spirituality